RE: [ECOS] eCos Support for IBM PowerPC 405GP

["Tom Orlowski" <tom at pixelmetrix dot com>]

Hi,


Thanks for the feedback, I already saw what you pointed out.  I have gone
though Anthony Massa's book and found similar references to PPC40x but no
specific board level targets.  How would the HAL have been tested?

> This normally
> means that some customer contracted RedHat to port eCos to a customer
> specific board. The generic parts, namely the HAL variant, have been
> released to the public, but the rest has not been released.

This is very interesting.

So far I am finding it difficult to contact Red Hat to get any details.
When I sent an email to them they responded :


> Your mail to 'Sales-ap' with the subject
>
>    Interest in eCos
>
> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>
> The reason it is being held:
>
>     Post by non-member to a members-only list
>
> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
> notification of the moderator's decision.


No response to my email for over a week, or any news on "the moderator's
decision".  Contacting them by phone only gets me voice mail.

I searched the mail archive and found similar questions from two people
previously, but I found no responses.

Would you happen to have a specific contact at Red Hat that may be a
starting point for finding out more information?


Thanks,


Tom.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew.lunn@ascom.ch]
> Sent: April 30, 2003 6:34 PM
> To: Tom Orlowski
> Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos Support for IBM PowerPC 405GP
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:21:32PM +0800, Tom Orlowski wrote:
> >
> > What is the current level of eCos support for the IBM PowerPC 405GP?
>
> Look in the database of ecos packages, there is a HAL variant for
> 40x. But there are no platforms which use the variant. This normally
> means that some customer contracted RedHat to port eCos to a customer
> specific board. The generic parts, namely the HAL variant, have been
> released to the public, but the rest has not been released.
>
> > How about any other IBM 400 series PowerPC processors?  The 440 series?
>
> I don't see anything in the database for 440. There is support for:
> mpc8260, MPC8xx, PPC60x MPC5xx, EC555 and a few others.
>
> Take a look at http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/hardware.html#PowerPC
>
>      Andrew
>



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